The Watson Way

Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.

"...mailouts, and that sort of thing. And from a planning standpoint, the thing about single-member districts is, even if..."

March 31, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Lost in Space

Do They Know the Way in San Jose?

"...San Jose 2020, "makes it difficult to provide adequate urban services for its residents, since residential use by itself..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

Be It Flood or Fire, Austin Is Preparing for Disasters to Come

Austin residents must be prepared for hell or high water

"...Most of these are located in what's called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI (pronounced "woo-ee"), which is just what..."

May 27, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Whose Affordability Crisis?

Looking through the prism's lens

"...If you're an urban planner, affordable housing is a key ingredient of a..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Project Connect Draws a Line

Group makes official recommendation to Mayor Leffingwell

"...Nov. 15, Project Connect – the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organ­ization's regional planning initiative – made its official recommendation..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Mac McCann

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...the campaign to create. – Wells Dunbar Courting New Urbanism..."

June 12, 2009 News Feature

New Urbanism and the Booming Metropolis

Austin welcomes the Congress for the New Urbanism XVI

"...The big top of New Urbanism is coming to town – CNU XVI: New Urbanism..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Triangle Square plans get approved by the Planning Commission, but not without some haggling and opposition.

"...now be the locale of the first genuinely New Urbanist and Smart Grown mixed-use project, and the first real..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Ready to Bond

AISD Tries to Ease Overcrowding

"...in the city's core, or the "hole" of the suburban Austin doughnut?..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Happy Trails on the Horizon?

AMTC's Vision Quest

"...dreaming about it for decades: a system of interlinking urban trails that would allow hikers and bikers to get..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

Unrealized Opportunities: Ester Matthews on the Austin Climate Protection Program

Ester Matthews reflects on the progress of the ACPP

"...EM: I'm planning to retire at the end of the year, if..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...on Houston streets. Both Fort Worth and Dallas are planning downtown streetcar projects.) At the TWG's May 5 meeting..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature

Downtown's Tall Order

Where can we put 20,000 new residents?

"...sending high-rise housing ever skyward from a just-released downtown planning map. Created by downtown development insiders, the color-coded map..."

June 23, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Smart Growth wouldn't be dead if it had stayed in touch with reality

"...was held up as a model of intelligent regional planning. Beauty is but skin deep...."

July 4, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Corner to Corner

There's more development slated for the already-crowded RM 2222 and Loop 360 interchange.

"...a few years now made itself at home before Planning Commission and City Council, arguing that the horrid 2222..."

Sept. 10, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Full Circle on the Triangle

Back to the Battle Lines

"...between Lamar, Guadalupe, and 45th Street, lands before the Planning Commission on March 24, then heads to the city..."

March 6, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Squaring the Triangle

The Three Austins Collide at a Central-City Crossroads

"...the Triangle is a battleground upon which Austin's new planning principles have to be defended, lest years of effort..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Best Transit Plan for Austin's Future Is …

"...Dear Editor, I appreciate your recent coverage of urban rail planning currently underway in Central Texas [“Urban Rail:..."

Dec. 16, 2013 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

If Mueller is a model, then why wasn't it followed with the Villas?

"...in its expert opinion -- the mixed-use Smart Growth urban village planned for the old airport couldn't, or shouldn't,..."

April 12, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Leans in Hard to Change TxDOT’s Mind on I-35

The road not taken

"...Travis County, Capital Metro, the Downtown Austin Alliance, the Urban Land Institute, the Reconnect Austin and Rethink I-35 community..."

April 2, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...for, thanks in part to the adoption of two planning documents: the Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint and the Austin..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Here Comes MetroRapid

Cap Metro rolls out its big bendy buses, the next mode in multimodal

"...see transit come into its own, particularly in the urban core." Yet both Spillar and Riley are realistic that..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The First Earth Day, 1970

Austan Librach remembers

"...city. In 1970, as a graduate student in regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, Librach volunteered to chair..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: 'Every Day It's Getting Worse'

Strategic Mobility Plan marks a way out of permanent gridlock

"...had plenty of leisure time to reflect on transportation planning in Austin (and to wish I were traveling by..."

March 12, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: The State Eyes an Eastern Campus

And about that regional plan …?

"...A shining New Urbanist outpost: "a state-of-the-art, sustainable government campus that's among the..."

May 15, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

UT's Brackenridge Tract: For Love or Money?

West Austin readies for another battle over redevelopment

"...considerable – pitting the current benefits of popular recreation, urban open space, ball fields, biological research, and affordable housing..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Deadlocked Over Density

Neighbors say ARA's development plans for East 11th Street would clash with existing homes and businesses, including the historic Victory Grill

"...require modifications to the city's 11th and 12th Streets Urban Renewal Plan and the East 11th Street Neighborhood Conservation..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Big Picture Map

A comprehensive map of Town Lake Corridor public and private development projects

"...between I-35 and Lamar, is included in the new urban plan for Downtown Austin being developed by ROMA Design..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

Austin @ Large: Sense of the Census

The new census numbers reflect

"...those elsewhere in the state. Throughout Texas, the major urban counties grew at a rate comparable to the state's..."

April 16, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Clean Campaigns heat wave, Alcoa's new problems, No Pipeline solutions at AAS, Personnel puzzles at AISD, City resignations, Mueller redevelopment candidates, Hyde Park meets again & Ed Herman's letter to the Times

"...Carol Barrett -- manager of the city's ultra-high-profile neighborhood planning program since its 1997 inception, and a former Best..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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